Weekly Webcomic Wrapup, now with more Yahtzee

I almost regret voting for Yahtzee instead of MNC.
That comic was awesome.

Joystiq I see you included 8-bit theater with the Yahtzee…I see what you guys did there.

Ditto... except I voted Zero Punctuation :P

I have a gamer wife, these jokes are every day for us =) So I voted for PvP too.

Some of the rest weren't even jokes let alone funny ones.

Well if he had some vaguely funny competition...

As he stated in his video though that competition doesn't exist.

Agreed. Castle Vidcons never fails to make me laugh.

I'd include Yahtzee's webcomics ... if they were game-related and more updated than 2 years ago.

Castle Vidcons is, like, the master of subtlety. I'm voting for that, too.

Castle Vidcons is genius. It consistently makes me giggle.

i must have missed the joke....
i like his artstyle tho...

You know, you may be right Samfish. That is very good analysis. I dont know why I laugh at Yahtzee. And I got very high SATs.

I should know better.

/end sarcasm.

I agree that George Carlin's material was more profound. But they are both funny.

Clearly I was in the can when you guys were passing the reefer around, because you must be high. Castle Vidcons looks like it was drawn with a dull pencil on a napkin, and rarely makes any sense. What was the joke in this week's comic exactly? The DS is getting a Chrono Trigger remake and . . . a magically animated Wii is upset about this?

The ZP films are usually genuinely funny. And this week's film was . . . genuinely funny! Imagine! Does he work blue? Occasionally (read: frequently!), but that doesn't make it any less amusing. After all, it isn't the content that makes it funny, it's the delivery. I doubt Dan Rather could get me to laugh at the seven dirty words you can't say on tv the way George Carlin could.

Nothing can compare to grenade shank though...

It seems everybit as funny as putting land mines on your warhawk and flying into others.

It's okay, Neebs. I vote for MNC every week just because my husband and I are friends with that whole group (heck, we're going cross-country to PAX with them this year!) but just like every comic, they have down days. I am especially happy about the Shank Grenade, though, since my husband and I have been going on to "Irving" about merchandising that for quite a while.

O!

I loved doing this on UT2004. Manta + Eight Spiders + Kamikaze Rush = A shit load of kills!

Are You Stupid!?

I give you that this video =/= WebComic, but the guy its more than curses and bad words! He's clever in the way he put out the videos and random images (even he mocks of himself constantly!).

What The Hell, Man!

Are you sure this didn't have to do anything about his opinion on SSBB?? (I love that game,MGS4, and still find amusing those "reviews").

"Are You Stupid!?"

This is my point... I just don't find funny the humor that require the use of bad words.

Or to say offensive words to people, just like you did.

Sorry, I don't enjoy movies like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans or videos like Yathzee.

To be offended by a set of words, and for that to be the reason to not find something funny, is stupidity in one of it's highest forms.

Yahtzee takes things and throws it in a smart and satirical manner, he does not get his humor by throwing out "bad words." He just does says it as naturally as he would be talking. He could do the whole thing without the use of obscene words but it would feel more forced. Someone needs to watch Mister Carlin's work.

And never put him on the same level as the crud that is the "Movies Movies."

Monkey

I never said that I feel ofended by what Yahtzee says. Is my personal opinion, and my personal tastes. I don't like obscene and bad words.

What I don't like if for example Atr, caling me stupid and I don't even said anything to him or to anyone.

I didn't call you that, it was a question...


(ok, atleast now I got my answer ¬¬)

God, can you please grow a pair?

I don't understand how you're expecting to get a point across when none of what you're saying fits in context.

Yahtzee's humor clearly doesn't come from his use of oopsie-naughty language like you say, and if you really do think that then you must be utterly dense.

Then you throw "Sorry, I don't enjoy movies like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans or videos like Yathzee..." into your argument. Can you read over that a few more times, please? I'm reading it as a sad attempt to strengthen your "point" by comparing Yahtzee's videos to completely unrelated movies that you know people hate.

You iz made of fail, lololol.

Comparing Yahtzee to George Carlin is an insult to Carlin. He's not even on the level of Dennis Miller. Yahtzee's whole shtick is that he has a "funny" accent and uses foul language to bag on games by pointing out obvious shit that most reviewers don't.
Compared to what George Carlin did, Yahtzee is elementary at best. All they're doing is speaking truth to power. But that is what nearly EVERY comedian/funny man has done since Carlin (not to detract from Lenny Bruce, but it didn't take off until Carlin and Pryor came on to the scene).

If you wanted to boil down Yahtzee's gimmick, it would basically be:
• Say something truthful about game
• Say something 'dirty' and out of left field
"The controls are bloody fucking awful. A dog with flaming diarrhea dragging it's ass across the carpet has more accuracy than this shit."

There is absolutely nothing intelligent or truly insightful, however, in anything he ever says that you couldn't find from 'trolls' on any message board.

Basically, the humor is Zero Punctuation is more Family Guy and less Futurama.
There's nothing wrong with Family Guy's humor. But it's very In Your Face...there's no subtlety to it. There's nothing wrong with ZP's humor either, but please – let's NOT pretend that it's some great intellectual comedy.

Says Samfish...

I know you'll never read this, but samfish, I never meant to compare Carlin's work to Yahtzee, because I whole heartily agree with you on that point.

Nor do I very much find it as some type of intellectual humor. It's just presented smarter than a lot of other video game humor around. It certainly is not intellectual when compared to Carlin, certainly not, but on the comparison to say...Dane Cook, it most certainly is.

also a recent strip from applegeeks.com had an obvious but funny exchange about spore.

no auto PA win either

better stick to making comics.

You mean when Strong Bad did it ... in 2007? Let me get my time machine and go back to when that was current events.

Also: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/13/weekly-webcomic-wrapup-stink-o-man-edition/

Hmm... touche. But did they include the sbemail in the actual vote?